Ok, this is a crazy comment, but I have been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 a lot and almost every piece of land has something, somewhere built on it. Farm, suburb, etc It's depressing but maybe it helps me understand that we are using
too much of earth. Do we really need endless farms?
I'm a big fan of this model - I've changed all my work architecture models to C4 and they make sense instantly to other engineers. The plugin for draw.io is really easy to use as well.
Vue.js. I use it exclusively for front end now and have ditched Angular 2/React all together. I even got it approved for use in the very large enterprise I work at (internal apps only of course, but we have a lot of those).
I also embraced messaging for good and was shocked at how easy NServiceBus makes everything regarding AMPQ.
I continued to celebrate .NET Core advancements and use it for all my server side programming.
I also dipped my feet in Scala and really like what I found .. Q1 of 2019 will be Scala heavy at work, then back to .NET Core.
E: Forget, every single project I have is set up in Azure Devops now for build/deployment. It's amazing.